Deck 9: Modern Africa and Latin America

Question 1

__________ is best known for his ficciones.

A) Jorge Luis Borges
B) Gabriel García Márquez
C) Isabel Allende
D) Chinua Achebe
E) Heitor Villa-Lobos

Answer 1

A

Question 2

One of the most characteristic types of African art is the __________.

A) mask
B) mural
C) public building
D) landscaped garden
E) church

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Frida Kahlo's self-portrait, The Two Fridas , shows the influence of the __________ artistic style.

A) Cubism
B) Fauvism
C) Realism
D) Surrealism
E) Regionalism

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Jorge Luis Borges often merges the "real" with the imaginary so that his readers become disoriented and are forced to reconsider the relationship between __________.

A) this and that
B) husband and wife
C) fiction and reality
D) here and now
E) life and death

Question 5

Jorge Luis Borges is to the short story as Gabriel García Márquez is to the __________.

A) poem
B) novel
C) essay
D) autobiography
E) poetry

Question 6

Isabel Allende's novel The House of Spirits (1982) creates a fictional world that reconstructs the history of __________.

A) Chile
B) Brazil
C) Peru
D) Argentina
E) Paraguay

Question 7

Mexico's president Alvaro Obregón initiate __________ in 1920 to restore Mexico's indigenous cultural identity.

A) an indigenous music movement
B) a mural movement
C) a literary movement
D) an oral history movement
E) a series of festivals

Question 8

Chinua Achebe uses __________ to show the changing economic, political, and cultural situation in Africa.

A) novels
B) songs
C) poems
D) essays
E) plays

Question 9

__________ is known for his/her "swollen" figures that fill the canvas like balloons and satirize the Latin American ruling elite.

A) Wilfredo Lam
B) David Alfaro Sigueiros
C) Diego Rivera
D) Frida Kahlo
E) Fernando Botero

Question 10

__________ were the two diseases which were particular deterrents to colonization of Africa before the nineteenth-century.

A) Cholera and malaria
B) Malaria and HIV
C) HIV and smallpox
D) Malaria and yellow fever
E) Dengue fever and bubonic plague

Question 11

The role of African music is as __________.

A) entertainment only
B) an expression of their belief system
C) a form to pass stories from generation to generation
D) an element of events performed only on special occasions
E) none of the above

Question 12

The coffins of Kane Kwei of Ghana are an example of how __________.

A) African art always tells a story
B) Africans value beauty above financial rewards
C) contemporary African art often has a functional role
D) the African conception of art's purpose has changed dramatically
E) both A and D

Question 13

According to Benton and DiYanni, __________ was not one of the three commodities from Africa that came into demand as the desire for slave labor decreased.

A) palm oil (used to lubricate machinery)
B) latex (natural rubber)
C) gum arabic (a dye fixer)
D) coffee (to supply European homes and coffeehouses)
E) none of the above

Question 14

Sonny Okosun's blend of African and Western sounds are based on the Ghanaian music known
as highlife.

Question 15

The Yoruba have images carved of ere ibeji or __________.

A) wandering minstrels
B) "the mothers"
C) the Oba
D) the gods
E) twins

Question 16

The message, for the Mexican people, of Sigueiros' large-scale mural, Cuauhtémoc Against the Myth was that __________.

A) Mexicans need to control their population
B) indigenous people could regain power
C) cultures can co-exist in one nation
D) colonialism was not damaging
E) religious faith will be rewarded

Question 17

The most popular forms of popular Latin American music are those associated with __________.

A) dance
B) opera
C) ballet
D) folk music
E) parables

Question 18

In 1800, the transatlantic slave trade was reaching its peak, with nearly __________ enslaved Africans transported to the Americas each year.

A) 250,000
B) 100,000
C) 75,000
D) 300,000
E) 500,000

Question 19

The Los Tres Grandes referred to the __________.

A) three Mexican novelists
B) three distinctive "Mexicos"
C) three painters of the mural movement in Mexico
D) three periods of the history of Mexican culture
E) both A and C

Question 20

The meeting held from 1884 to 1885, which resulted in the division of the African continent among Great Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, was called the __________.

A) Division of Powers Colloquium
B) African War Act
C) Conference of Berlin
D) Bismarck Session
E) Benin Expedition

Question 21

Proxylin is a lacquer developed as an automobile paint that was used by David Alfaro Siqueiros.

Question 22

With what are the most prevalent forms of popular music in Latin America associated?

Question 23

What three important technological innovations made possible the colonization of Africa?

Question 24

John Maxwell Coetzee is a Nigerian painter.

Question 25

Delineate the elements of magic realism in the literature of Latin America and provide an example of its use.

Question 26

Solomon Linda, the Zulu musician who wrote Mbube (The Lion Sleeps Tonight), sold the rights in 1952 for one million dollars.

Question 27

The "red rubber scandal" was exposed by Brazilians in the 1950s.

Question 28

Isabel Allende's The House of Spirits reconstructs in fictional form the history of her country: Chile.

Question 29

What two separate cultural and economic traditions make up Latin America?

Question 30

The gelede masking tradition comes from the Baule of the Ivory Coast.

Question 31

Examine how the arts and literature of Latin America show an immense plurality that demonstrates equally diverse cultures.

Question 32

What developments began the decline of slavery in the early 1800s?

Question 33

What is the role of African music, and what is its most distinctive feature?

Question 34

Many of the Latin American forms of popular music are associated with dance, such as calypso
and samba.

Question 35

The Sengalese scholar Leopold Senghor founded the movement called negritude which stressed the cultural achievements and unity of all people of African descent.

Question 36

What is the relationship between the music of Johannes Sebastian Bach and that of Heitor
Villa-Lobos?
Essay

Question 37

Fernando Botero is a Columbian artist whose figures look "swollen" and satirize the Latin
American elite.

Question 38

How did colonialism encourage the rapid expansion of Islam?

Question 39

Select several works to explore how "African sculpture reflects both the preservation of local sculptural traditions and the introduction of styles and techniques from outside the continent."

Question 40

Describe the impetus for the Mexican mural movement.

Question 41

What is the role of religion in the production of art, music, and literature of the African and Latin American worlds?